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ISS026-E-027640 (16 Feb. 2011) --- Russian cosmonaut Oleg Skripochka, Expedition 26 flight engineer, wearing a...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- On Launch Pad 39B at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, the crane crawler lifts a piling off...
ISS026-E-027627 (16 Feb. 2011) --- Russian cosmonaut Oleg Skripochka, Expedition 26 flight engineer, wearing a...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- On Launch Pad 39B at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, the crane crawler lifts a piling...
ISS011-E-09646 (27 June 2005) --- Lightning was the suspected cause of this giant wildfire, raging through an area...
ISS040-E-070424 (19 July 2014) --- One of the Expedition 40 crew members aboard the Earth-orbiting International...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- At NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the rotating service structure (RSS) on Launch...
This aerial view captures KSC's Launch Pad 39A, with the rotating service structure closed around Shuttle Atlantis....
A bolt of lightning is seen near the B-2 Test Stand the night before a second hot fire test of the core stage for...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- On Launch Pad 39B at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, workers measure the piling being...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Atop twin towers of flame, space shuttle Endeavour races past the lightning mast on Launch...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Atop twin towers of flame, space shuttle Endeavour races past the lightning mast on Launch...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – At NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, an ominous thunderstorm cloud hovers over the...
ISS040-E-081424 (27 July 2014) --- From an altitude of 223 nautical miles, one of the Expedition 40 crew members...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - Space Shuttle Atlantis clears the lightning mast as it hurtles into the afternoon sky...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- The rotating service structure has closed around space shuttle Endeavour, with only...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- On Launch Pad 39B at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, the crane crawler continues pounding...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- In the Launch Complex 39 Area turn basin at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, the crane...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. - Another aerial view of Launch Pad 39A at NASA Kennedy Space Center in Florida. In the...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, or LRO, and NASA's Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing...
ISS026-E-027633 (16 Feb. 2011) --- Russian cosmonaut Oleg Skripochka, Expedition 26 flight engineer, wearing a...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – At NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, dark clouds hover over the Vehicle Assembly...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- At NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the rotating service structure (RSS) on Launch...
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- In the Launch Complex 39 Area turn basin at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, the crane...